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Sunday, March 29, 2009

It's been a month surprisingly, so we decided to head back North to have another L.A session. This time Dean and Idragged alongAdam and Keith....We did a lot, let the photos explain the day.

We picked up Dean at Alicica Parkway in Mission Viejo...We drove North and hit a lot of traffic, arriving in Los Angeles around 1:15 P.M. Once again, the first stop was the gap to ledge on Grand Ave. Adam, Keith, and Dean all got clips before moving on to the metro station spot. Here is Adam with a zero spin soyale.Dean and Adam at the metro station spot.Adam fooling around with a back roy to ao wallride. It was super hot out, and this spot was really hard to skate, so we decided it was time for food after all of us were dehydrated.We stopped for food and Dean went to Burger King while me and the boys crossed the street for some Subway. After everyone was refreshed, we headed to Sunset. We passed on the corner ledge and stopped at a thrift store before going to the school.No one bought anything....We arrived at the school and hopped the fence. We set up the benches and skated for probably two hours.

Dean doing a little fishbrain in his line.Keith ao negative mistrial for the second trick of his line.After the school spot it was almost 6:00 P.M, so we hopped that fucking fence one more time and decided to go down Hollywood Blvd.Well, we couldn't find one spot, so we stopped at another goodwill. I bought this gay ass shirt for a dollar and weheaded home.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Every Wednesday the boys and I meet up and skate our local skate park in San Clemente. We usually have a good little session there for a few hours just for kicks. This Wednesday all we really did was fool around for two hours.

Then there is Thursdays, where everyone comes and skates the Etnies Skate Park in lake Forest. This is always a good time and it's always cool to see people you don't see very often. This Thursday, we headed up towards Etniesand stopped at some 30 stair, steep square down rail. Adam did his tricks, then Winston showed up and destroyed it. After the death rail, we shredded the park, and all enjoyed In N Out afterwards. After In N Out, Adam, Keith, Andrew,Quinn and myself all headed to skate street in Irvine. We found some amazing ledges at the re-done train station,only to get kicked in literally 30 seconds. We offered the security $20 dollars to skate for an hour, but he declined andended up talking about God for too long, or so it felt. After we got kicked we decided to go light up this little skate park at some church in Irvine. Keith and I pulled over to skate some line ledges Ispotted off to the side of the road,and everyone else just headed to the park. 25 minutes later when Keith and I showed up,we got kicked out the second we opened the car doors. We reasoned with the security guard, told him we had driven from San Clemente to meet up with our friends (who he didn't even know had been skating the park for a half and hour), and he told us to chill for a minute. He came back over and told us to wait until his boss left, then we would be good to go. Ten minutes passed of sitting and bullshitting with everyone until he rolled back up in his cart. He gave us the go and we skated until 1:00 A.M. It was a fun little night of skating I guess.

Adam got another package from Rat-Tail.... his new jams....Adam and Keith spot checking...

Here's a little skatepark edit with the only clips I filmed in 15 minutes.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Well, it took three weeks but finally another productive night. I picked up Adam, Keith, and Dan around 7:30 P.M, and we headed to Etnies Skatepark like we do every Thursday. We met up with the usual people and some boys from Arizona including Chad Hornish and X who were traveling with Mathias Ogger. We all skated until they closed the skatepark at 9:00 P.M and then we went to In N Out and enjoyed some food. Winston mentioned a trick he had been wanting to do so we headed back to San Clemente at around 10:20 P.M. We arrived at the concrete yard and Winston already had his skates on looking at this crazy drop rail. I went to my trunk and pulled out the generator, two lights, and 100+ ft. of extension chord and we lit it up. After everyone had set up their cameras, Winston showed off and laced the rail first try, only to do it again for a double angle, and a photo. After that spot, everyone got pretty juiced to skate. We drove around and looked at a couple spots on Southside San Clemente, but settled on an old little wallride that Dean did in my "Tiger In Harlem" edit. We lit it up, Adam got some cool shit done, and everyone was satisfied with the footage. So, thanks, Adam ! After that spot, it was already past 1:00 A.M, so we called it a night. Everyone went to stay at Winston's and me and the twins went home. Overall, i's say it was a pretty adventurous night.

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Winston walking back up.Chad Hornish...X setting up his dolly at the wallride.The generator and lights cooling down the wallride spot as we cleaned up.

Monday, March 2, 2009

I went ahead and made a separate Vimeo for the video. If you want to keep up to date with promos and shit like that, that's the place to look, along with the blog still for news, pictures, and of course to let you know when that new one is up.